SWIFTS ARE ARRIVING HOME!
Celebrate your first swift sighting by posting on here and tagging me & Michael Gove - if he knows how many of us are DELIGHTED by their return, maybe he will act & greenlight the ready-and-waiting proposal to secure their essential nesting habitat!

Unconcerned about wildlife, impact on the local ancient ecosystem or the nesting Skylarks Roots Allotments have this morning mobilised an army of soil carrying vehicles and dumped this low grade rubbish all over the Abbots Leigh meadow

Running tractors over Skylark breeding grounds during breeding season is a bad look 👀 no wonder a resident tried to stop them

BREAKING: The High Court has dismissed the case against Trudi Warner in a stinging rebuke to Judge Reid and the Solicitor General.

Say it loud and proud: 'JURIES HAVE A RIGHT TO ACQUIT A DEFENDANT ON THEIR CONSCIENCE' 💚✊ 🔥

Love positive news like this 🪲💚🕷️🐸🦫💚🪲

UN moves to end plastic pollution with global treaty negotiations in Ottawa, despite 'Big Plastic' interference.

Join Oceana Canada and EARTHDAY.ORG in urging leaders to #EndPlasticPollution this #EarthDay .
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#PlanetvsPlastics

For this Earth Day (April 22nd), the world unites to tackle plastic pollution. Decision-makers need to hear your voice!
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#PlanetvsPlastics #EndPlastics #EarthDay #EndPlasticPollution #GlobalPlasticsTreaty

At last sensible justice!
A high court judge has thrown out an attempt by the government’s most senior law officer to prosecute a woman for holding a placard on jury rights outside a climate trial. theguardian.com/environment/20…

The radical roots of the first #EarthDay in 1970 are often forgotten.

Inspired by the anti-vietnam war student sit-ins 20 million Americans took part!

It led to the:
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act
- Endangered species Act
- & the EPA

People power works ✊️🌍
#EarthDay 2024

“Parts of India are being seared under a heatwave with maximum temperatures ranging from 40 degrees celsius to 46 degrees celsius in many areas. Amid the intense heat, a TV anchor recently fainted while reading heatwave updates live on air.” ndtv.com/india-news/doo…

How can #bbclaurak do a special on #netzero without bothering to research the basics and then totally failing to call out disinformation? A quick 🧵rebutting some of the worst of it....
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Good news...I saw a hedgehog in my garden last night.
Bad news...if I don’t see it tonight, I shall worry!

Day 84: Wild service tree

A rarer find & an indicator of ancient woodland. They have an apple-like fruit called chequers, which were once used to make alcohol.

My favourite leaf - they turn crimson in autumn!

I think this may be the only one in the valley.

#frome_valley_year

This might look pretty uninspiring, but I’ve got Stone Curlew, Grey Partridge, Skylark and Oyster Catcher nesting on this ex pig land

Give it space when they will come!

On BBC Countryfile this week we’re looking at the government’s controversial decision to authorise sugar beet farmers to use a banned neonicotinoid pesticide as an ‘emergency’ for the 4th year in a row. This year there’s no such emergency authorisation in the EU. BBC1 shortly…

Unsure why Laura Kuenssberg had a climate sceptic on this morning. Luke Johnson has referred to 'the 'climate emergency' delusion' and 'the green elite’s fake claim that there’s a ‘climate emergency’'. What qualifications does a bakery owner have to pontificate on climate on the bbc?

Earth Day reminds us to be kind to Earth. Earth Overshoot Day is when humans use up year's worth of resources. July 25th this year. Stop overconsuming, overtravelling, overconstructing, overdestroying natural resources now. Can be done. Remember this? theguardian.com/environment/20…

We need a just transition away from fossil fuels to help us hit Net Zero . You don't make that happen with 100 new oil and gas licenses , a new coal mine , or by tearing up plans to tackle vehicle emissions & phase out gas boilers – that's why I'm taking the Government to court .

After this vandalism last Spring, the council rightly apologised and planted a large patch of wildflowers on the estate to make up the incident which were just starting to come up this week.

This morning they mowed down the wildflower they themselves had planted. Words fail me.

The Internal Review our FoI for evidence of Dormice on Yew Tree Farm SNCI has been responded to positively - whatdotheyknow.com/request/reques…

...and confirms that Dormice are indeed present.

We have asked to see the other ecology evidence referred to.

Catherine withers